*** Charlatan has joined #yackfest
* Charlatan bonelessly morphs into channel
* Alicia morphlessly channels into bone.
<Nitya> both of those sound really pauinfujl
<Alicia> Not to goddesses.
<Alicia> Charlie is Charlie so probably not to him.
<Charlatan> I CAN FEEL THE WARP OVERTAKING ME.
<Charlatan> IT IS A *GOOD* PAIN.
* Charlatan vomits forth a thousand eyeless rats
<Alicia> See, told you Nitya.

[discussing China Mieville]
<bogo_lode> i'm thinking more about his books
<bogo_lode> they essentially all have the protags win
<bogo_lode> but in a way that is horrible and despair inducing
<Barcode> and lo, the protagonists won so hard they became the villains and lost to themselves
<bogo_lode> that kinda happens in the squid one